Member Since: 9/27/2007
Band Website: albandarche.com
Band Members:¦¦ AD3 ¦¦
[Alban Darche: tenor saxophone -
Emmanuel Birault: drums -
Frederic Chiffoleau: double bass]
Definitely, Alban Darche doesn’t do anything like everyone. For more than ten years, the saxophonist has had fun with the sets and sonorities, he settles up today a new project, a trio saxophone, double bass, drums, of seemingly traditional invoice. Obviously, one will first of all note the line-up which does not concern the chance. If Alban Darche chose to be surrounded by musicians he knows well, it’s to break with this annoying tendency of impromptu meetings or sessions, which often do not bring more than a smooth and inexpressive music. With this project, the saxophonist shows us how it’s essential that musicians know each other well in order to give music all the body and soul it needs to be interesting. Anyway, this new project, far from any aesthetic consensus brings us freshness and spontaneity, things that are sometimes lacking from what we call Jazz
¦¦ LE GROS CUBE ¦¦
[DARCHE : saxs, comp. & arrgts -
C. LAVERGNE : drums -
S. BOISSEAU : double bass -
G. CORONADO : guitar -
A. ROULIN : keys -
P. CHARNOIS : bar sax -
F. RIPOCHE : saxs -
S. RIFFLET : saxs et clarinets -
M. DONARIER: saxs et clarinets -
G. TAMISIER : trumpet -
A. BESSON : trumpet -
L. BLONDIAU : trumpet -
JL. POMMIER: trombone -
D. CASIMIR : trombone -
P. BENECH : bass trombone -
G. OLIVESI: sound]
::: Jazz is a type of popular music :::
Le Gros Cube by Alban Darche is good news for jazz. Good news for the history of French jazz. Put like that, obviously, it seems an exaggeration. But let’s get one thing straight: Le Gros Cube by Alban Darche doesn’t pretend to change the history of jazz. It is a landmark. The music played for Le Gros Cube quite simply could not have been written or played before now. Alban Darche is born in 1974. Most of his fellow musicians are of the same age. They were trained and played – and still play – with the great movers and shakers of “classical†jazz. Musicians like Bruno Chevillon, Daniel Humair, Marc Ducret, Steve Coleman, Tim Berne, Claude Barthélémy ... They came after this generation of musicians who, to dethrone idols, sometimes radicalised their music. Everything that might bear the slightest resemblance to the terrible relationship of jazz with American dance music has been cut out. The operation was successful: it gave rise to a freedom and a creativity rarely achieved until then. It also had the side-effect of “intellectualising†jazz, making it complex, and finally distancing it from the larger public. Alban Darche and the musicians of Le Gros Cube come after that generation. They have no statues to unseat, no idols to burn. And between them they have so many conservatoire prizes that they no longer need to add any more to prove their mastery in theory and technique. They have won the right to play what they love. They are among those groups that follow their elders’ committed research. At the same time, when they feel like rediscovering the simple joy of a “big band†that swings and roars with style, they throw themselves right in without reservation. That’s what Le Gros Cube is: pleasure to the first degree. A shared pleasure. On the stage with the musicians. In the hall, with the public, all publics. Casual listeners will find here all that brings a smile to the lips when listening to the big bands of American jazz. At the same time, “informed†lovers of jazz will be impressed by the richness of the orchestrations, the perfection of the ensemble sound, and keen creativity of the soloists. And if, in touching at once the lowbrow and specialists, Le Gros Cube were to rediscover the very essence of jazz? And if, finally, jazz had no other justification than to be popular music played by learned musicians?
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Type of Label: Indie